So, finally an opportunity to get contracts on PC again? Its been a long time since i played it on the PS2. Supposedly its been gone for so long because the license on a song used in one of the bars ran out, and rather than remove the song they just stopped selling the game.

edit: wait, trailer only shows boxart for consoles, no PC release then? I guess all the games are already "HD" on PCs, doesn't look like they have increased the texture quality, but would have been nice to get contracts again.

I've always found it odd that the Hitman Collection on Steam was the first, second, and fourth games. Now this HD collection is the second, third, and fourth games. It's nice that Contracts is legally available again though.

It doesn't look improved. I finished off Blood Money a few months ago. Turn on 16x anisotropic filtering and morphological AA, and it looks the same as this trailer. Maybe it actually looks better when you play, but this trailer did not.

@Yummylee: That's one of my favorite hitman levels of all time. It's actually a remake of the same level in Hitman 1, but it's great in both.

Also if you even have a 3~ year old mid range PC you can run all these games fine and get them for cheaper from Steam. It seems like they didn't do any graphical improvements other than bump up the resolution.

@m16mojo2: I don't know why you'd expect them to use much video from the older games, they look awful compared to Blood Money. You shouldn't treat it as them trying to imply the old games are terrible, they're just using the content that looks best in video

THAT is a soundtrack; sucks your new game doesnt have Jesper Kyd. Big mistake.

I don't know about mistake, he was probably busy composing for Borderlands 2 and Darksiders II ... throwing yet another game into the mix may have been a bit much for one guy. That's probably the same reason (at least partially) why he didn't compose Assassin's Creed III after scoring all previous games. I bet IO would've loved to have Kyd come back since they basically broke into the industry together.

@014 said:

It doesn't look improved. I finished off Blood Money a few months ago. Turn on 16x anisotropic filtering and morphological AA, and it looks the same as this trailer. Maybe it actually looks better when you play, but this trailer did not.

Well, all they're selling is an HD version for consoles. In that scenario, they are improved since the old games weren't in HD (aside from the 360 port of Blood Money). Their "for the first time in one HD package" line is a bit silly though since they've been selling all FOUR (!) games in one package (Hitman Ultimate Contracts) on PC for many many years.

Yeah, the old games don't look much/any better than they used to, but do they really in any of these "HD" collections of previous gen games? I'm really asking because I haven't played any of them. Did the Sly Cooper, Jak & Daxter, DMC, Tomb Raider, Splinter Cell, MGS, Silent Hill, Z.O.E. or ICO/SotC collections look markedly better? All of them claim to be "HD" or "remastered for HD" as well.

I will end up getting it eventually. Even tho I have all the games on PC, I've separated my gaming from it and use it for work only. Plus it won't hurt my trophy count and at $30 it won't hurt my wallet when I hit the dog days of nothing else to play.